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PKOCES VEKBAL 



THE CEREMONY OF INSTALLATION 



PRESIDENT 



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IT WILL BE PERFORMED FEBRUARY 8, 1820. 



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IT WILL BE PERFORMED FEBRUARY 8, 1820. 



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NEW YORK: 
PRINTED FOR THE DSE OF THE MEMBERS. 

1820. 






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REPRINTED 1864. 
THIRTY-FIVE COPIES. 

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CEREMONY 



INSTALLATION 



DAVID HOSACK, M. D., LL. D., D. D., 

R. S., London, Edinbukgh, Hatti and Pekin : Fiest Vice- 

Pkesident or the New Yoek Society of Conchology and 

Indian Earthen Wake; Omnium Academiaeum 

Americanarum, vel Artium, vel Scientia- 

eum, vel a. b. c, socius; nec non 

Fkater honorarius consociatus 

ADVIOINTI-QUATnOE SoCIE- 

. tates Europ^as om- 
se3 in linea, 



AS 



President of the New York Historical Society. 
On the 8th of February, 1820. 

The Committee of Arrangement, consisting of 
five Generals of Militia, five Doctors of Law, five 
Doctors of Medicine, and five Doctors of Divini- 
ty, have unanimously appointed 

Gen. Jacob Morton, their Chairman, and 
Dr. Valentine Mott, their Secretary. 



Mr. Simpson, of the New York Theatre has volun- 
teered his services as Stage manager for the 
ceremony. 

Scriblerus Busby, LL. D., and J. A. Graham, 
LL. D., will act as Installators on the occasion. 

The Society will meet at their Hall precisely at 
4 P. M: the clergy in their gowns, militia othcers 
in full uniform: all the otlicr members with clean 
linen, and well shaved ; coats, hats, and shoes 
brushed. Seats reserved for the Ladies. 

John G. Bogert, Esq., Eussian Consul, and Presi- 
dent of the Board of Counsellors of the Society, 
will take the chair in full consular uniform ; an 
empty arm chair being placed under the canopy at 
his right hand. 

The minutes having been read, and the election 
of Officers duly announced^ Drs. Busby and Graham, 
in their red robes, as Doctors of Law, will then intro- 
duce the President elect, clad in a white surplice 
with black gloves; the chairman and all the mem- 
bers rising to receive him. They will lead the 
President elect to the chali-, and Dr. Busby will 
then say unto the chairman, 

Salve vir doctis.siiiie. 
Consul spectiitissiuic — 
Hie pvesento, our new Praises; 
To be seated, ubi sedes. 



The chairman shall then arise ; and having first 
placed the President-elect in the chair on his right, 
shall make an harangue in the Russian tongue in 
honor of Governor Clinton and the President-elect, 
after which, first bowing to the President elect and 
then to Drs. Busby and Graham, and finally to all 
the members, he shall say or chaunt aloud, 

Viri spectatissimi, 

JjJj. i).'s doctissimi 

Et vos omnes, Learned Fellows, 

Nunc requiro that you tell us 

Whether no objections are 

That this man should be our Czar ? 

Then Dr. Graham shall make an excellent Eng- 
lish speech, in honour of Governor Clinton and the 
President-elect; after which Dr. Busby shall make 
a Greek speech, in honour of Governor Clinton and 
the President-elect; after which Mr. Daponte shall 
make an Italian speech in honour of Governor 
Clinton and the President-elect; after which, Mr. 
Boinior shall make a French speech, in honour of 
Governor Clinton and the President-elect, after 
which, Mr. Verplanck shall make a Dutch speech 
in honour of Governor Clinton and the President- 
elect; after which, Mr. Gahn shall make a Sweedish 
speech, in honour of Governor Clinton and the 
President-elect; after which. Dr. Mac Niven shall 



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make an Ii'ish speech in honour of Governor Clin- 
ton and the President-elect; after which, Mr. A. H. 
Palmer shall make a Chinese speech, in honour of 
Governor Clinton and the President-elect; after 
which, Major Noah shall make a Hehrew speech, in 
honour of Governor Clinton and the President-elect. 
These being concluded. The Diplomas of mem- 
bership of all the learned Societies to which the 
President-elect has been associated shall be drawn 
into the room in the triumphal car, built under the 
direction of Stephen Price, Esq., for the triumphal 
entry of Alexander the Great into Babylon, on the 
New York Theatre. The diplomas shall all be read 
aloud alternately by Drs. Busby and Graham, at the 
conclusion of each of which the President-elect 
shall rise, and, bowing gracefully unto the Society, 

shall chaunt, elara voce, 

Verum est, at uuii est Hum 
Quare dico, diguus sum, 
Vaster Prfeses, for to be, 
lu this wise Society. 

To which the members shall chaunt iu reply, 
Dignus, Dignus, diguus es, 
For to be our new Pra3ses. 

Then Dr. Busby sliall road aloud the President 
elect's diploma of M. D. ; whereupon four M. D's, 
in their robes shall advance, bearing a Medical robe 



whicli they shall put on to the President-elect, in 
such wise as not to hide his surplice. Dr. Bushy 
shall then say or sing, 

Hie Prseses, magnus, novus noster, 
Medicinse nunc est Doctor — 
Quare dignus, dignus est, 
As it is by all confess'd, 
Praeses noster for to be 
In hoc docto corpore. 

Then the members shall chaunt in reply, 
Dignus, Dignus, dignus es, 
For to be our new I'raeses. 

Then Dr. Busby shall read, clara voce as before, the 
President-elect's diploma of LL. D. ; after which 
four Doctors of the Law all robed in their red robes, 
shall enrobe the President-elect with the Gown and 
Hood of a Doctor of Laws, but in such wise as not 
to hide the medical robe, or the surplice. Dr. 
Busby shall then say, or chaunt, 

Duplex Doctor est hie Praeses, 
Medicinam scit et Leges, 
Latine scribit, etiam Chaldee, 
Quare dico, dignus, valde 
Est hie magnus duplex Doctor, 
Prasses noster for to be, 
In this wise Society. 



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All tlie members chaunt, in reply, as before, 

Dignus, dignus, dignus es, 
For to be our new Prseses. 

Bis. 
Then Dr. Busby shall read aloud the President- 
elect's diploma of Doctor of Divinity, whereupon 
four D. D.'s shall advance bearing the fall robe and 
hood of an Oxford D. D., which they shall throw 
over the back of the President-elect in such wise as 
still to show his other oflicial integuments. Dr. 
Busby shall then say or sing aloud, 

Triples Doctor est hie Prajses 
Cures souls' and bodies' bad diseases, 
In Law and Physic capit fees, 
Nam habet all the three degrees; 
Quod dico nunc vobis, permagnum est omen, 
Quod foret perpetuum per secula nomen. 

To which the Society shall chaunt in reply, 

Dignus, dignus, dignus es, 

For to be our new Prseses. 

Three times repeated 
After which rising they shall add, 

Et, bene, we know without any omen, 
Quod erit perpetuum per secula nomen. 

After this the grand Ode, written for the occa- 
sion by Brevet Major Pindar ^Puif, Poet Laureat to 
his Excellency, shall bo performed by Domiuick 



Lynch, Esq., assisted in the recitative by T. A. 
Cooper, Esq. ; music composed by Dr. Jackson ; all 
the mend)ers joinino- in the yrand ///(«/(, will chaunt 
these words: 

Ilail t(i great Hosack — triple Doctor thou I 
Of Law and Physic erst, of Saerod Letters now! 
Thrice hail to Clinton — greater Doctor still I 
Who wields the State, as Ilosack wields the Pill ! ! 
The whole to conclude with the grand Ckasii. 
When this is done, Colonel Fell will enter in full 
uniform, with all his orders, preceded by a full baud 
of martial music. Colonel Pell, advancing iuto the 
middle of the room, taking out a white cambric 
handkerhief, and standing erect, shall read aloud 
Governor Clinton's Brevet of "honour," of Major 
General in the militia, conferred upon the Presi- 
dent-elect; after which General Colden and Gene- 
ral R. Macomb shall put on the shoulders of the 
President-elect, over liis robes, a pair of large 
epaulettes, and shall place upon his head the hat 
worn by Napojeon at the battle of Waterloo; 
whereupon, General Morton shall fix a plume, 
which he shall take from his own hat, and Colonel 
Pell shall gird him with his own belt and sword, 
giving him therewith the accolade of knighthood. 
Then all the militia officers, rising, shall draw and 
salute General Hosack; during which martial 



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music sliiill play, aiul jmiifli shall he liaiuled to the 
ladies. 

The chairman Mr. Bogart, shall then order Dr. 
Williamson's grandmother's family Bible* to be 
brought in ; after which, rising from the chair of 
state, he shall liow profoundly four times: 1st to 
the bust of Governor Clinton ; 2d, to the New 
President; 3d, to the Society; 4thly, turning his 
back unto the Society, he shall bow slowly and pro- 
foundly unto the vacant chair; then he shall with 
both hands hand the President-elect nnto the chair 
of State (martial music playing a Russian air); after 
this he shall again bow unto the President, and shall 
descend and seat liimself among the private mem- 
bers, but in a chair specially reserved for him under 
his own bust. 

Applause — Music — and Punch. 
Dr. Graham shall then reverently hold the grand 
maternal Williamson Bible open before the Presi- 
dent on his right hand, and the President placing 
both his hands thereon, Dr. Busby, standing at his 
left hand, shall proceed to administer the Oaths of 
Office thus: 

Juras, Clinton adorare 

Pifi'-j)aff-puifere et laudaie. 

*Tlie one menfioneJ in Dr. Hosaok's Eulogy of Dr. Williamson, 
and now in the library of the Historical Society 



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To which the I'rofi'uk'nt shall reply. 

.1 urn Cliiituii ailiirare 

I'iff-paft'-puffore et laudavL'. 
Dr. Bushy: 

.luras. ut miiii|M:nii, iiuiujiiaiii. never 

Tluiu wilt tVuiu Cliuli'ii's t'ui'tuiics sever? 

The President: 

Juro, ur iiun(|iialu, nunquain, never 
Will I from Clinton's fortunes sever ! 

Dr. Busby : 

Abjiiras SaiRtmn 'I'am.manku.M, 
Vt pravuni. foeiliun. turpeni renin ? 

The President: 

Abjurci Sanctum Taninianeuui. 
Ut pravuni. Ibeduni. tiirpeni reuni. 

When the President siiall rise from his seat, 
and the Hon. William 1*. Van Ness, tbllovved by six 
other members whose names incipmnt in Va7i, shall 
advance, and, gravely bowing, shall present unto 
Dr. Busby the Sceptre of the Society, or the gold 
headed cane of Kip V:in Dam. Dr. Busby sliall 
present it unto the President, and then both instal- 
lators shall bow thirteen times unto the President, 
(in memory of the original thirteen States,) and 
unto the Society as many times as there may be 
States admitted into the Union at the moment of 



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so bo^viug.* After this they shall descend and seat 
themselves by the side of Mr. Bogoit. 

Then the President will deliver unto the Society 
an Oration on the comparative merits of the two 
patron saints of the Institution, Santa Claus (or 
St Mcholas) and I)e Witt Clinton, or Dr. Clinton. 

This done, the wliole Society shall arise, and Mr. 
Barent Gardenier shall set tlie tune of "Santa 
Claus, goot heylig man," in which ancient carol he 
shall he accompanied by Mr. Bleecker,' Judge W. 
P. Van ISTess, Mr. Verplanck, Dr. Onderdonk, and 
the other Duteli members of the Society. 

Dr. Busby will then bring forward the following 
resolutions: 

Resolved, That this Society return their thanks 
to the Glorious and Sublime De Witt Clinton, for 
the honour which he hath conferred upon the 
Society by having been its President. 

Eesolved, That the oration delivered before the 
Historical Society by his Excellent Excellency, can 
be described only in its own language, as possessing 
"the energetic spirit of a Frenchman, and "tlie 
sublime eloquence of an Iroquois." f 



*The Society is informed that, to prevent any mistakes Mr. 
Lang lias undertaken tljat an express shall start from Washington 
the moment the Missouri question is settled, and arrive at the 
New York Institution in nineteen hours and twenty-four minutes. 

f Clinton's Historical Discourse. 



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Resolved, That we view in l)e Witt Clinton, 
" the tortoise of the Indian, and the Atlas of the 
" Heathen Mythology', siistaining the world. * 

Resolved, That our late and present Presidents 
are (in the words of the formerf) "The Castor and 
"Pollux of antiquity — lueida sidera — stars of excel- 
lent light and benign iniluenco." 

Resolved, That this Society will take warning 
from the advice of its late beloved President, and 
will never, "like the self-burning tree of Guinea, 
be destroyed "l\y the tire of its own genius." J 

These votes having been carried by acclamations 
the committee appointed to petition the Legislature 
for a further grant of luoney, or land, for a perma- 
nent fund, will report the draft of a petition. Then 
Dr. Eusby, turning to the bust of Governor Clinton 
shall ssiy iu recilatke, accompanied by the whole 
Society, 

Tu es i^iaudissimus Tustiulu, 
Qui f^eris tutum iiiuuduiu, 
Never mortal shone as you do; 
Tunc, grant to us a FUNDUM. 

The whole ceremony will conclude with 
PRAYERS by the PRESIDENT. 

* Clinton's Address to the Academy of Fine Arts, 
f Clinton's Address to the Academy of Fine Arts. 
J Ditto. 



A Card, 



Dr. Busby presenteth his profound respects to the 
members of the New York Historical Society, and 
requesteth that they will suspend their opinion on 
the character of the late Dr. Williamson, until the 
publication of Dr. Busby"s "Vindication of the hite 
Dr. Hugh Williamson from the charges brought 
against him by Professor Hosack, in his Eloges 
Funebres;" wherein Dr. Busby pledgeth himself to 
prove that the accusation against Dr. Williamson 
of having been "A man of Letters, Homo trium 
literarum," Anglice, a letter thief, is altogether 
groundless. He beggeth, at the same time, that 
it be expressly understood that this literary contro- 
versy will in no wise interrupt the long and 
unbroken frieudship which hath hitherto subsisted 
between himself and President Hosack. 



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